Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] each [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you see those wildlife programmes on telly they 're all either fucking or eating each other . |
| 2 | It is big enough for the bands to circle without getting in each other 's way or drowning each other out . |
| 3 | Mark your caravan by etching or engraving each window with your postcode . |
| 4 | He also imagined men photographed in colour , sprawled alone or holding each other , doing extraordinary things but in ordinary rooms , living rooms ; doing things on sofas , on sheepskin rugs , stretched across a coffee table . |
| 5 | These interfere with each other , cancelling each other out or reinforcing each other to produce bigger waves . |
| 6 | She opened a door into a cavernous room where the young army were grouped round a huge table on which their boots and packs rested , smoking , rolling cigarettes or making each other up . |
| 7 | Five were of players chatting or congratulating each other . |
| 8 | If we start from the raw data values X 1 we can either proceed up the ladder of powers by squaring or cubing each number or down the ladder by taking square roots or reciprocals . |
| 9 | Or murdering each other . ’ |
| 10 | Packets leaving the wrapping machine still passed over the checkweigher as before but now , instead of merely passing or rejecting each pack , the computer captured the data it measured and performed various analyses including the average weight and standard deviation for each hour . |
| 11 | Italians only find skiing interesting when they 're shouting epithets or carving each other up , which makes for severe anxiety neurosis among less passionate mortals . |
| 12 | Kissing , licking , rubbing and stroking each other 's bodies . |
| 13 | It was very undemanding , revolving round the borrowing of clothes , and helping each other with routines . |
| 14 | The feeling of comradeship now in Liverpool , the feeling that everyone was in it together and helping each other , was something that her mother would never understand , she felt , nor her grief for the baby . |
| 15 | To me , sexuality is romance and love and poetry and beauty , not picking somebody up on the street and using each other then telling them to fuck off and burning them with a cigarette . |
| 16 | By so phrasing each paragraph and bringing each incident to a proper conclusion , Nijinska gives both dancers and audience time to consider what has been done and what is yet to happen . |
| 17 | He and Gina went on living together and nagging each other quietly . |
| 18 | But if the best way to do this is by romping around a campfire and sniffing each other 's bottoms is open to question . |
| 19 | The adolescent Bisus were coming out of trance , and now sat bruised and perspiring together , simpering and repairing each other 's damaged make-up . |
| 20 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 21 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 22 | Today , however , when she glanced up and saw two men high above her on a jig smiling and nudging each other , she simply fled back to the sanctuary of her office . |
| 23 | I doubt they 've ever considered the downside of their sexual fantasies — the tacky , borrowed bedrooms and checking each other afterwards for telltale hairs on jackets , mascara marks on shirts , or the odour of stale perfume . |
| 24 | Two old countrymen , oblivious of my pack of children , began a friendly argument , raising their voices and ending each sentence with ‘ Begor ! ’ an abbreviation of ‘ By God ’ . |
| 25 | The chief investigators here were E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh , rivals in the manner of robber barons , chartering trains and suborning each other 's assistants in an effort to get the spoils back to their base first . |
| 26 | The admission that compromise was possible is the first sign that the confident period of Hildebrandine reform — the period of intense conviction and hope of complete success — was coming to an end , and was being replaced by the age of negotiation , undertaken by lawyers and administrators , differing in their briefs , but alike in their methods , and understanding each other very well . |
| 27 | Partnerships aim to improve the educational and vocational opportunities of young people by working together and understanding each other 's needs and objectives . |
| 28 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |
| 29 | There I saw men kissing and holding and loving each other ; something that I never thought possible as the mainstream culture manifests itself in overwhelmingly heterosexual and macho terms . |
| 30 | By taking the set of compounds which are to be used and replacing each word within the compound by its corresponding root-index the storage requirement is drastically reduced . |